Many of us still miss Russell Libby, so I must thank the Natural Resources Council of Maine for posting a podcast of Russell’s widow, my friend Mary Anne Libby, reading an important poem by Russell. The podcast includes an interesting interview with Mary Anne. You can access this here: You can also access this and […]

Erinne Magee’s book, This Is Camp, took me to our camp with every poem and story. Even if you don’t have a camp, you will enjoy this book, but if you do have a camp, as you read Erinne’s poems and stories, you will enjoy remembering all of your own wonderful camp experiences. Our camp […]

Lots of good and important information in this post from the Natural Resources Council of Maine, and it includes an interview with me. Here’s the NRCM post. My interview is near the bottom. https://nrcm.salsalabs.org/earthweekwaters

Our daughter Hilary was 8 or 9 when I took her down Sourdahunk Lake in the boat to fish a favorite spot. Hilary was fishing from the front of the boat with the same fly I was using from the back of the boat. And she caught nine brook trout while I caught nothing. Hilary […]

Pressing Matters by Bruce Fleming, published by Maine Authors Publishing, is a compelling novel with interesting characters and an amazing plot. Honestly, I could not stop reading. The central character owns a lot of newspapers and is terribly mean to his family members – especially his son, and his friends. A lot of the relationships […]

I am going to start sharing some of my favorite fishing stories over the next few months. Some of these are in my book, A Lifetime of Hunting and Fishing, published by North Country Press. Today I’m going to tell you about an amazing fishing experience on the Androscoggin River. My friend Harry Vanderweide heard […]

Isolated in our house because of the corona virus, I started pulling favorite old Maine books from my shelves, and enjoying reading them again. The first one was For Maine Only by Edmund Ware Smith, published in 1959. Smith was a very popular writer. You probably recognize the title of his book The One-Eyed Poacher […]

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George Smith

George stepped down at the end of 2010 after 18 years as the executive director of the Sportsman’s Alliance of Maine to write full time. He writes a weekly editorial page column in the Kennebec Journal and Waterville Morning Sentinel, a weekly travel column in those same newspapers (with his wife Linda), monthly columns in The Maine Sportsman magazine, two outdoor news blogs (one on his website, georgesmithmaine.com, and one on the website of the Bangor Daily News), and special columns for many publications and newsletters.
Islandport Press published a book of George's favorite columns, "A Life Lived Outdoors" in 2014.
In 2014, George also won a Maine Press Association award for writing the state's bet sports blog. In 2016, Down East Books published George's book, Maine Sporting Camps, and Islandport Press published George and his wife Linda's travel book, Take It From ME, about their favorite Maine inns and restaurants.